Good books for a 3 year old boy?

[2pt4kids]

DS1 loves books, but has become rather attached to the ones he has had a long time and we often find ourselves reading things like 'Thats not my puppy' at bed time as thats what he picks out!

Am thinking I will have a clear out of his book shelf soon, put the baby board books in Ds2's bedroom for him and others downstairs for us to look at in the day and just keep the slightly longer, more bedtime reading ones upstairs in DS1's room.

Any recommendations for ones I can get him to add to his bedtime stories?

I have recently got him 'The tiger who came to tea' and have just ordered the Dr Seuss collection from the Book People (I loved those books when I was younger!)

I'm looking for books that have a paragraph or two of writing on each page rather than just a short sentence iyswim.

Thank you!

Percy the Park Keeper, all Richard Scarry books, Julia Donaldson Gruffalo and all the others like it...

We have the Gruffalo but not the others so will look those up - thank you!

Any other ideas?

Usborne Books Farmyard Tales

Mr Men

DS likes Harry and His Bucket of Dinosaurs
We've also just started reading classic fairy tales
He also likes lift the flap/pop up/interactive books too

Snail and the Whale by Julia Donaldson is fab. The Large Family series are a big hit with my ds and he is also mad on Nick Sharrat books like Chocolate Mousse for Greedy Goose and Pants.

night pirates
mog (mog on fox night, mog and bunny, mog and vet, mog's bad thing are all fab, some of them are a bit odd)
i like lauren child but ds doesn't.
chris wormell, george and the dragon and the sea monster. his new frog one is not good.

i get a lot from the library, there are some utterly dreadful books for this age group and it's easy to make a mistake. i think puffin books are usually safe bet, walkers publish some right crap.

Mog books, also by Judith Kerr

Blue Kangaroo

Anything by Shirley Hughes, Dogger, Alfie etc.

DS likes Mr Men, they send me to sleep though.

second Richard Scarry, Seuss and Room on the Broom, Squash and a Squeeze etc.
Elephant and The Bad Baby is a good ne, my DS and DD1 like joining in with it.
The Ravenous Beast,
Where's my Teddy?,
Park in The Dark
Ladybird fairy Tales books.

oops school run!
HTH

We just got the Sir Charlie Stinky Socks books for our DS1 (age 4) when it dawned on us that we were repeatedly reading the same rather basic books at bedtime.

Dogger

Funnybones

Hairy Maclary is fab
Mr Men
Funny Bones
Aliens Love Underpants

The Winnie the Witch Series
Harry and the Dinosaurs ... the whole collection are good
Hairy Maclarey collection
Mr Men books
The Little Princess books
All the Gruffalo/A Squash and a Squeeze etc books
A Day in the Life of Bob - Man on the Moon
Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs
Emily Brown

I could keep going .. we have loads and still go to the library every week!

Calm Down Boris
Joe's Dog
Arrgh Spider- a BIG favourite in our house
Mog
Burglar Bill
Giraffes Can't Dance
The Lion Who Wanted To Love

Giraffes can't dance (plus others by giles Andrae)

Any Julia Donaldson

Lost and Found - Oliver Jeffries (and just bought another one, but can't remember what it's called)

Peepo and EachPeachPearPlum

Harry and the dinosaurs are good, as there is a whole series 9and it covers most topics!)

The Little Bear stories - Martin Waddell

Daisy duck series (can't remember who by, sorry!)

oh, and Hairy Maclarey of course

Some dogs do, duck in a truck by Jez Alborogh, the are great rhyming stories.

nearly forgot ... the Marks and Spencer First Readers range of fairy tales ... ds loves them and they are simple enough that I will use them when he eventually learns to read for himself! They often have them on 3 for 2 offers. He gets something like that for Easter rather than an egg for a couple of pounds. I have found quite a few of them in charity shops as well!

Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffries is a lovely book
Also the Julia Donaldson/Axel Schaeffer ones - Smartest Giant in Town, Room on the Broom,Monkey Puzzle, Charlie Cook's favourite book
Harry and the dinosaurs series of books
Aliens love underpants
Baby Brains
Snowbears
This way Ruby
& Ruby flew too
Very Hungry Caterpillar
Munching Crunching caterpillar (lovely popup book with pleasant story

oh yes hairy maclary

we have the catch a star book by oliver jeffries, i'm going to get the other one mentioned here.

debbi gliori books are lovely. We has one from the library about a little fox and his mummy discussing the nature of love, can't remember the title but twas lovely. we have a nursery rhyme book by her, which is v.popular here.

You Choose is a good book.

in the night kitchen is a firm favourite at bedtime.

sorry for typing, bfeeding baby so typing w/ one hand!

Little Red Train books by Benedict Blathwayt. They have lovely illustrations.

Oh yes! Benedict Blathwayt's train books are lovely! So much to talk about in the illustrations! Thanks - I'll read one of those stories tonight to my ds!

Firm fave with my almost 3 yr old (and my nearly 6 yr old) is Dig Dig Digging.

Pinky - You Choose is great when they choose different things, but when it's the same night after night after night ..... my, it gets dull!!

My DS chooses the same things EVERY time we read you choose too!

DS is three and he loves most of the books mentioned here, esp Little Red train, and Julia Donaldson. He also loves Thomas the tank engine...

We have a lot of books as I get them in charity shops - he still loves "that's not my (fill in the blanks and laugh all the way to the bank) and apparently they are really good for promoting literacy due to the repetition.

I love Helen Cooper Books and Jan Fearnley. Also Shirley Hughes, esp Alfie stories as reckon Alfie is three or four so up to similar stuff to DS!

DS LOVES QPootle% in Space (even though we only recently got the first page - thanks Mn for that!)

DS loves "Stomp Chomp Big Roars, Here Come the Dinosaurs" - lovely and funny poems on each page and plenty of scope for stomping around, baring teeth and being scary. Sorry can't remember who by...

We also got a good book called "Tyrannosaurus Drip" which is by Julia Donaldson and a different illustrator (not Axel Scheffler), which is top of the reading list at the mo.

Second all other suggestions, although Mr Men is dire! (IMO)

curlygal - the worst thing is that ds2 actually ponders over it for ages, before choosing the same things!! Aaaaaargh - it makes me want to tear my hair out!